Uninstallation help needed!

Add/Remove programs isnt working efficiently, it is removing programs from the list but is leaving large amounts of data on the HDD. Nero 8 is one of the programs and Roxio is another. Does anyone know how to get around this?

The uninstall/remove routine should clear the program files and all the associated registry entries and data files too. More often than not, they don't do the job properly.
If the program files have gone you can safely remove the whole directory that was associated with the program.
To clean the registry I would use something like Ccleaner which you can download from http://majorgeeks.com/google_search...f;S:http://majorgeeks.com;LP:1;FORID:11&hl=en

Unfortunately there are a few programs where the sellers think it is a good idea to leave reminders of it on your system/PC, Nero and Adobe are a couple I can think of. Nero does provide on its web site a program to uninstall its product - go to Nero web site and download it Nero 8 Clean Tool. This will uninstall Nero 8 correctly. Then run Ccleaner in both 'Analyse' and 'Scan for Issues' mode and remove all Nero references there - just remove everything that 'Analyse' and 'Scan' find - do backup of 'Scan Issues' found.